Vivid Meadow
Land
This land enters tapped with two charge counters on it.
: Add 
., Remove a charge counter from this land: Add one mana of any color.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Commander 2017
- Price
- $0.35
- EDHREC rank
- #5654
Vivid Meadow enters tapped and produces white mana freely, but its real job is providing two charges of any color — a meaningful concession from a land that asks nothing beyond a slot in the 99. The catch is that it enters tapped every time, which makes it a liability in faster metas where missing a turn-one untapped land costs games.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Vivid Meadow is a Commander card through and through — the format's slower pace makes the enters-tapped penalty acceptable, and five-color or four-color decks genuinely need the color flexibility it provides. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant; no competitive deck there wants a tapped land with only two off-color charges. Modern has long since moved past it, with fetch-shock and triome mana available at comparable or lower cost. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's dynamic closely enough that the same calculus applies: run it in greedy manabases that need white and occasionally need something else, cut it when your curve is low enough that tapped lands hurt.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.35 bulk tier
At $0.35, Vivid Meadow sits squarely in bulk territory and has stayed there through multiple reprints. It's a safe pickup for budget five-color manabases, but don't expect the price to move — supply is deep and demand stays modest.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.